Police say Majette's husband, who was shot and wounded, is now cooperating with police.

Authorities say Majette's husband, 34-year old Daunte Vance, initially stonewalled police detectives. Vance was a fugitive at the time of the shooting, wanted in Waukesha County in a misdemeanor drug case.

Vance was also shot and wounded in 2007 in Fitchburg. Court records show when officers arrived in the 22-hundred block of Highway MM April 2, Vance was covered with blood, and was taken by MedFlight helicopter to UW Hospital.

Authorities say Vance and another man broke into a Madison home, and Vance's accomplice was believed to have shot Vance later after a dispute.

Records show that man, Marcus Canady was convicted of a federal weapons charge, and sentenced to ten years in prison in January 2008.

Burke says the release was based on the need for Canady to offer testimony, or face other criminal charges, but declines to comment further. A Dane County sheriff's official says Canady is not in the local jail.